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Emergency Medicine Association, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Department of Disaster Medicine and Emergency Medicine Clinic are inviting to the Emergency medicine Conference in Kaunas, Lithuania on April 19-20, 2018.

Continuing a 7 step program to expose 24 Lithuanian Physicians training in the specialty of Emergency Medicine about how to manage and direct Emergency Medicine Departments in community hospitals, 4 more young residents from Lithuania joined Emergency medicine doctor Herb Loyd, head of Emergency medicine at Cincinnati hospital Kurt Knochel and their incredible team of experts for 5 weeks.

Alexandra Kazickas Lithuanian School's students, teachers and parents say huge Thank You to the Kazickas Family Foundation for its continuous support.

The Basketball Power co-founder has no doubt that Independence is the most important thing for Lithuania and Basketball Power program helps Lithuania to make it a better place!

Saturday, March 17th, Kaunas University of Technology Faculty of Informatics (KTU IF) hosted close to 200 high school students participating in the 20th Dr. Juozas Petras Kazickas Computer Science Forum for school children.

In 2012 the Kazickas Family Foundation established the Joseph P. Kazickas Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale to support the Baltic Studies program in the MacMillan Center's Council on European Studies. 2017-2018 JPK fellowship recipient Arvydas Grisinas at the end of his stay presented photography exhibition by Juozas Kazlauskas focusing on the so called "January Events" in Lithuania.

Back in June of 2017, Beverly Kazickas, who is passionately involved with the Nature Conservancy, advocated to add regulatory requirements to modify crab traps so that New York's diamondback terrapins don't drown trapped in them.

Dvbridge Group together with the Kazickas Family Foundation's help offers free programming lessons for kids in Lithuania. "Sourcery for Kids" initiative expanded and free of charge creative technologies classes reach more than 400 children in Kaunas, Sakiai, Raseiniai, Klaipeda and Plunge.

On March 17th, 2018 over 100 students took annual Lithuanian Language Proficiency Test in six countries around the globe. It was initiated in 2014 by the Kazickas Family Foundation together with Lithuanian language specialist Gailute Urbonaite Narkeviciene (Boston Lithuanian School) and provided by the Ministry of Science and Education of Lithuania and Vilnius University. Local Lithuanian communities contribute to bringing this test to their students.

Augie Kazickas, the Basketball Power co-founder, is excited for Lithuania and it’s people and has no doubt that the future of the program is in the hands of its participants - children. More of his thoughts about Lithuania and the importance of Basketball Power: